James Weir recaps Married At First Sight episode 26: MAFS husband slept with bride’s twin sister

A shock twist has taken place on MAFS that will make the Home And Away writers jealous. James Weir recaps.

A Married At First Sight husband’s tryst with another bride’s identical twin is exposed on Monday night and the Home And Away writers are absolutely spewing they didn’t think of this diabolic storyline first.

The revelation is followed by a twist where the twin is called a trash bag by the angry wife which then prompts the defensive sister to wage war, declaring, “I’m not gonna let her get away with it!”

Ada Nicodemou would kill for this dialogue.

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It’s Couple Swap Week, where the experts troll everyone by splitting up the freaks and pairing them with other spouses in the group who they hate.

“This is not about actually trading partners,” John Aiken states clearly, adding caveats to stop the angry online petitions. “It’s designed to give a fresh perspective to their relationships.”

Sure. But mainly, it’s about matching everyone with their enemies and watching them fight.

Beth is paired with Ryan, who just last week called her “classless” after she innocently enquired why he’d “rather go to the gym than f**k ya wife’s p***y”.

They’re both lured into a room and, just as they realise who they’ve been partnered with, producers lock the door and cackle. Suckers!

“I think he’s a complete and utter [bleeeeeeeeep],” Beth sighs.

With nothing left to do, she waits until Ryan takes a shower and quickly gets to work, using a Texta to graffiti monobrows and blacked-out teeth on all the photos that make up the Jacqui and Ryan shrine:

Not scary at all. Picture: Channel 9.

Down the hall, Awhina is being told she’s getting matched with Paul. Producers smirk and await her response.

“You have a history with Paul outside of this experiment,” they say knowingly.

Awhina, with arms crossed, tries to play it down. “... Not really though.”

Producers goad her further. “Kind of …”

Don’t withhold from us, Awhina. Picture: Channel 9.

We then skip into Paul and Carina’s apartment and demand an explanation. Turns out, the freaks have been keeping a secret from us.

“A few weeks ago, Paul told me that he had a little fling back in the day with Awhina’s twin sister,” Carina says, explaining her husband’s tryst that occurred a few years ago in Perth.

News of Couple Swap Week sends her over the edge. Why is Paul being paired with Awhina? It’s almost like … like … like the producers are mocking them!

“You’ve already slept with her sister and now you’re gonna sleep in the same bed as her,” Carina begins to sob. “Awhina and her sister look identical. So I don’t want Awhina moving into our apartment and sleeping in our bed with my husband! Sharing my husband with another woman … it’s like a form of cheating. It completely goes against my values, my religion. The fact you’ll be having a shower and she’s in the room next door … It’s just f**kin’ weird!”

Oh doll. This whole program is f**kin’ weird. Welcome to the freakshow!

Producers decide this is the perfect moment to swing open the door and shove Awhina into the suite. Paul gets so flustered he accidentally calls her “Cleo” … the name of the twin sister he slept with.

This triggers a full-blown meltdown for Carina, who is promptly escorted out of the suite, leaving her husband alone with his new fake wife who looks identical to the woman he previously slept with.

Calm down, Carina. Things are about to get worse … Picture: Channel 9.

All this crying from Carina seemingly turns Paul off. He decides to vent about his wife in the letter writing task — a challenge helpfully designed by the experts to spark further drama.

“There’s a few things that have been bothering me a little bit,” he reads, explaining to Awhina the red flags he has noticed in his marriage.

“I feel like she is a bit of a snob sometimes. And can come across as very judgy. And, I’ll be honest with you — this is giving me the ick.”

Ouch. OK Paul. Men who punch walls during arguments give us the ick, but whatever.

He continues reading his letter aloud, telling Awhina how Carina reacted when she found out about the fling with the twin sister.

“When I told Carina the reason why I knew you, she made a comment about Cleo that sort of gave me the ick,” he cringes. “She said, ‘Oh, I didn’t know you’d go for that kind of calibre’.”

That calibre? THAT CALIBRE?

“Is that because my sister’s covered in tattoos?” Awhina hits back.

“Yeah,” Paul sighs.

Good god, Carina. The woman has a few bad tattoos. It’s not like she’s a petty thief. And you’re not so perfect, yourself. For example, you keep pronouncing the word “girls” as “gewls”. And that’s apparently not the only shortfall.

Awhina hits back by calling Carina an out of touch nepo baby.

“I know you live at home with your family. I know you work for your family’s business,” she fumes, imagining what she’d like to say to Carina’s face. “I could call you an entitled, sheltered, princess. I’m not gonna let her get away with it!”

Paul doesn’t seem to realise the feud he has sparked.

“I’m quite scared of how Carina is gonna react if I ever bring these things up,” he sighs.

Well, thank god you didn’t say it in front of a TV crew.

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